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It's hard to go wrong with free. Parts manufacturers are often more than happy to ship you, for no cost, a few samples of their merchandise. They often ship within the week, sometimes the next day, and with free 2-3 day FedEx/UPS. | It's hard to go wrong with free. Parts manufacturers are often more than happy to ship you, for no cost, a few samples of their merchandise. They often ship within the week, sometimes the next day, and with free 2-3 day FedEx/UPS. | ||
- | If you know other companies with sample program, feel free to [[http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/doku.php?id=sampling|edit the wiki page with this content]]! | + | See also: <del>http://razorconcepts.net/samples.html</del> (very outdated compared with info below). |
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- | See also: http://razorconcepts.net/samples.html | + | |
note: since you can try getting samples from any distributor, to clear things up I'm <del>marking</del> unverified ones, those which require extensive sales team contact or those who just don't have an option to request samples on the webpage; also, I reordered and cleaned the list a bit - vaxquis | note: since you can try getting samples from any distributor, to clear things up I'm <del>marking</del> unverified ones, those which require extensive sales team contact or those who just don't have an option to request samples on the webpage; also, I reordered and cleaned the list a bit - vaxquis | ||
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[[http://www.intersil.com|Intersil]] | [[http://www.intersil.com|Intersil]] | ||
- | Power, Data, Interface, Muxes and Timing chips, many of them in DIP packages. You can sample 8x 2pcs, most of the parts (with the obvious exception of MIL-class ones) are available for sampling. Sent through Digi-Key as of 2014. | + | Power, Data, Interface, Muxes and Timing chips, many of them in DIP packages. You can sample 8x 2pcs, most of the parts (with the obvious exception of MIL-class ones) are available for sampling. Most sent through Digi-Key with some parts forwarded by some mystery distributor (as of 2014). |
> I just got 10 HIP4081AIP chips from Intersil as samples. | > I just got 10 HIP4081AIP chips from Intersil as samples. | ||
> The samples arrived without any problem. (March 2014) - vaxquis | > The samples arrived without any problem. (March 2014) - vaxquis | ||
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>I was finally able to find samples on ON just to notice I'd have to pay $15.99 for shipping and $5 for handling... ~$21 for an order; it's true you can sample products with value higher than that to offset it, but overall I don't find this price too appealing (2014) - vaxquis | >I was finally able to find samples on ON just to notice I'd have to pay $15.99 for shipping and $5 for handling... ~$21 for an order; it's true you can sample products with value higher than that to offset it, but overall I don't find this price too appealing (2014) - vaxquis | ||
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+ | [[http://www.nxp.com/|NXP]] Formerly Philips Semiconductors, all kinds of logic, data, amp, discrete and uC stuff. While they *don't* generally offer sampling to individuals (they forward you to local distributors), they, from time to time, have sampling programs for new parts, i.e. browse through http://www.nxp.com/news/campaigns.html and try to find a campaign with "request free samples" option, e.g. Logic Portable Industrial (http://www.nxp.com/campaigns/portable-industrial/select-samples). | ||
+ | >Just received 150 SMD logic gates. It took them a while, and also a local distributor called me with "please meet me and talk about the project" after sending the request, but they came, shipped with DHL (March 2014) - vaxquis | ||
[[http://www.cirrus.com/dispatch/setlang/en/forms/sup/sreq/sinfo/SinfoController.jpf|Cirrus Logic]] | [[http://www.cirrus.com/dispatch/setlang/en/forms/sup/sreq/sinfo/SinfoController.jpf|Cirrus Logic]] |